You don't join two companies as a permanent employee. Join one and run freelance contracts in your spare time. This is basic, every single software developer that is experienced enough knows it.
Is it immoral to get a second job as a software developer?
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Yep. I've always been a freelancer and almost always worked for more than one client at a time. As long as you are able to hit deadlines nobody cares when or how you work; there's no 9 to 5 with freelancing so maybe you should figure out how to switch to that.
Edit: Ooops thought the OP wrote immortal. No it's not immoral to get a second job as long as you can handle it. Nobody ever said there is a limit on how many jobs one is allowed to take.
It's not as simple as looking at a non-disclosure agreement. Companies may have policies, and if an employee violates a policy, the employee can be fired.
When I did full-time software development for a large bank, they allowed employees to have second jobs but insisted the second job be in a non-financial industry and not be at a customer or supplier for my division. Once I certified my second programming job met those requirements, it was ok for me to have two jobs.
Again, it depends what your employment contract says and where you live. California is an "at will" state and theoretically an employer can fire you...at will, although in reality it's more complicated, as a highly litigious state with lots of labor lawyers at your disposal to fight for you in court.
why not?